"ReNew"ing the Sink!

We had wonderful weather these past few days is Pawleys Island, SC.  I am so thankful that my work let me take a couple days to "get away from it all" with my husband. It was much needed and much appreciated! 

The first thing Brent and I wanted to do when we got home was to put the downstairs bathroom sink back in working order (especially since Mom, Mammaw, and Aunt Sherrie are coming for a visit on Wednesday!). 

I bought this "sink fixing stuff" at Home Depot about a month ago:

ReNew Refinishing Kit

The instructions were so complicated, I wanted to just return it and try something else.  The instruction booklet folded out to be poster-sized, and had all sorts of "wait one hour, then..", "wait 3 hours, then..", and "wait FIVE days, then..".  I didn't know when I was going to have the time to do all the steps, but since we decided we were going to leave town for a few days, Brent thought that would be a great time for it to sit and cure.

Here is what our poor downstairs sink looked like before, sans gold faucet:

 The sink and tile are actually in great shape, and replacing the whole thing is obviously not a real option. I tried CLR on the rusty part of the drain hole, but it didn't do anything.  So, we finally found the courage to try the ReNew.  After about 3 hours of mixing the hot can and the cold can and yadda yadda, I taped around the sink and prepared it for the first coat.

Doesn't it look like a sour face?? This was the hardest part- taping the hole under the sink!

Ready to go!

This is what it looked like after one coat:

And this is the sink all done!

After 2 coats and 5 days of curing.

We also changed out the faucet from the gold-genie-in-a-bottle look to the welcome-to-the-21st-century look.  Quite a huge improvement! The best part is, it only cost us $30.  We will see if it holds up over time, but I think it feels really strong! I mean, if you're going to have a mauve-tiled bathroom, it can at least be fresh and clean!